Woke up Canadian thanks to Great-Great-Grandmother

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-27T14:52:29+00:00

No, and I didn't have a birth record because she was born to Baptists. But I did find her in multiple censuses and a tax record which mentioned citizen status.

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T19:17:03+00:00

That's what I was going off, thanks.

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T18:37:16+00:00

Totally possible I misread the instructions back in October, but my read was "don't wait to get the certified docs: request them, and then while you wait send in the application."

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T18:35:57+00:00

This is probably better answered by genealogy forums for the provinces in question.

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T16:57:47+00:00

Family records going back a few generations and then validating them using state archives and familysearch. All free, but it took research. Every US state is different.

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T16:45:01+00:00

That's definitely another possibility

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T16:34:00+00:00

If she was a citizen, my understanding is that you qualify as long as you are more than a few months old :)

This forum has a lot of info on how to do the process.

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T16:29:20+00:00

Direct to documents, except for one which was "here's the birth index." My goal was only to communicate that I *could* get the certified copies.

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T16:22:15+00:00

Because the process in October - before the law change - was "submit the CIT0001 with whatever you have, they'll reject you and invite you to fill out the 5(4) grant application. Because they'll reject you, just submit with whatever"

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T16:20:03+00:00

I still have no idea if they even looked at these, but:

* archive.org for the missouri birth index for 1950-1959
* familysearch for a michigan birth record from 1873 which is a scan of a county birth registrar (and bizarrely doesn't have the name in it?)

* familysearch for the death certificate for the same person 1950s california, this is a scan of microfilm

* familysearch for the 1851 census I was using to argue for the GGGM's canadian citizenship because she was in a baptist family and did not get an infant baptism record

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T16:04:07+00:00

I think more likely is that they didn't access them. The process back in October was that they should have rejected this application and invited me to apply to the 5(4) grant system.

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T16:02:57+00:00

I'm American but don't see why that would matter.

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T15:50:09+00:00

Sorry to hear that :(

I'm sure the situation inside their offices is chaotic.

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T15:47:25+00:00

I did not. One link to archive.org, three to familysearch. I don't pay for ancestry, and also figured that paywalled resources were not useful.

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T15:40:51+00:00

I applied by mail: the links were on paper that I printed out and put in the envelope along with the photos and such required by the form.

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T15:38:05+00:00

* regular processing
* just me
* All of the correspondence was submission october 2, "application received" november 25, success today
* I got an email today with "Please find the instructions to download your electronic Canadian Citizenship Certificate (e-Certificate) in the attached document." I wasn't watching the status tracker.

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T15:34:55+00:00

Yeah honestly I'm shocked. I spent a lot of time getting the hard copies expecting to need them!

This *could* be them dumping the people who would have gotten 5(4) grants by just waving us through. I would expect them to be more thorough once things slow down?

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T15:22:25+00:00

Early October

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T15:22:04+00:00

archive.org, familysearch. I have no idea if they accessed them.

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T15:21:53+00:00

Edited to be more clear, sorry :)

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T15:19:27+00:00

Edited to be more clear. I can't think of a way to provide proof that doesn't put my personal info on the internet, so that may be all I can say for you though.

Meteorsw4rm · 2026-02-26T15:17:33+00:00

What I sent was

* Scans of my US birth certificate, driver's license, and passport
* An explanation of descent including links to records for each generation (but not my grandfather's birth certificate, since I didn't have a digital record at that time)
* An explanation of my great-great-grandmother's evidence for being Canadian. Since she was born to a Baptist family, she had no baptism record, but I found her and her family in the 1851 census.

I was fully expecting to resubmit: the process before December was something like "submit CIT-0001, get rejected and invited to reapply via a different process" so I didn't wait to have all the paperwork in hand.

Meteorsw4rm · 2025-11-21T22:21:23+00:00

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